We often discuss the evil of the secret practice of polygamy. D&C 132 restored both polygamy and concubines. Due to marriage records we know about polygamy. How do you feel about concubines?

The LDS church claims to be a supporter of women, but this is a philosophy that has evolved like all the rest of their "doctrines". Their misogyny is evident in all of their scriptures and all early church records. Women are spoken about as if they will become celestial door prizes.

"Supposing that I have a wife or a dozen of them, and she should say, "You cannot be exalted without me," and suppose they all should say so, what of that? ... Suppose that I lose the whole of them before I go into the spirit world, but that I have been a good, faithful man ... do you think I will be destitute there. No, the Lord says there are more there than there are here ... there are millions of them, ... we will go to brother Joseph and ..." He will say to us, "Come along, my boys, we will give you a good suit of clothes. Where are your wives?" "They are back yonder; they would not follow us." "Never mind," says Joseph,"Here are thousands, have all you want" (Journal of Discourses, vol. 4, p. 209).

Have all you want?

You cannot be exalted without me?

And I command mine handmaid, Emma Smith, to abide and cleave unto my servant Joseph, and to none else. But if she will not abide this commandment she shall be destroyed, saith the Lord; for I am the Lord thy God, and will destroy her if she abide not in my law. Apparently the golden rule does not apply to wives.

I think concubine implies some kind of ownership or at least an imbalance of power in the relationship. The definitions I looked up use words like "lower status than a wife" and "kept for sexual purposes".

I'd say consenting adults having sexual relationships with multiple other consenting adults, even simultaneously, is fine, but when one has power to impose their will against the will of the other, it's a problem.

The same applies to polygamous or polyandrous marriages. It's all about fully informed consent. If those involved are informed, not coerced, and freely consent, I have no problem. Joseph telling young girls and their families that god commands it and will destroy them if they don't comply, is more offensive to me than the mere fact of having multiple wives or even multiple sexual partners. Joseph used his influence to coerce and manipulate women to have his way. He objectified women and did not respect their personhood.

Concubines are possibly worse than polygamous wives, because it seems they share some or all of the duties of a wife but with even less status.

A concubine was basically a sex-slave without the dubious 'rights and privileges' of being an actual wife. According to dictionary.com:

1: a woman who cohabits with a man to whom she is not legally married, especially one regarded as socially or sexually subservient; [emphasis mine]

Ever wonder why no one in church would actually say what a concubine actually was/did? (The most explanation I ever got was, "It's like a servant, but a woman.") It's because their role was sexual submission and very little else. What tbm parent is going to explain that to their little "CTR1"?

To clarify: I am opposed to coercion in sexual relationships. People that use their ecclesiastical position to hunt for sexual partners are wrong. People that indicate that God told them you should marry or have sex with them are wrong.

My issue is not multiple partners, it is coercion and deception. Concubines are sexual partners with no rights. That is fine if all involved are agreed. It is wrong if it is done through deception or abuse of power. We openly discuss polygamy, but don’t talk about concubines because there are no records.

Wow, there are a lot of ellipses in that quote. I don't disagree with your premise, but if you have to use that much cutting of material, it is as disingenuous and much of what people here rail against.

Here are the full remarks. Now that this is from a talk given by Hebert C. Kimball. You'll see that they say much the same thing:

Supposing that I have a wife or a dozen of them, and she should say, “You cannot be exalted without me,” and suppose they all should say so, what of that? They never will affect my salvation one particle. Whose salvation will they affect? Their own. They have got to live their religion, serve their God, and do right, as well as myself. Suppose that I lose the whole of them before I go into the spirit world, but that I have been a good, faithful man all the days of my life, and lived my religion, and

had favor with God, and was kind to them, do you think I will be destitute there? No, the Lord says there are more there than there are here. They have been increasing there; they increase there a great deal faster than we do here, because there is no obstruction. They do not call upon the doctors to kill their offspring; there are no doctors there, that is, if they are there, their occupation is changed, which proves that they are not there, because they have ceased to be doctors. In this world very many of the doctors are studying to diminish the human family. In the spirit world there is an increase of males and females, there are millions of them, and if I am faithful all the time, and continue right along with brother Brigham, we will go to brother Joseph and say, “Here we are brother Joseph; we are here ourselves are we not, with none of the property we possessed in our probationary state, not even the rings on our fingers?” He will say to us, “Come along, my boys, we will give you a good suit of clothes. Where are your wives?” “They are back yonder; they would not follow us.” “Never mind,” says Joseph, “here are thousands, have all you want.” Perhaps some do not believe that, but I am just simple enough to believe it.